Undergraduate & honours qualifications

Diploma in Explosives Management

Qualification code: 98222
NQF level: 6
Total credits: 360
SAQA ID: 101120
APS/AS: 17
Rules:
Students should note that during the course of their studies they would be required to have access to a computer, printer and the internet. The applicable rules are indicated per level in the curriculum below.
Purpose statement:
This qualification is designed to provide career-focussed education to equip successful candidates for the effective and safe management of human capital in organisations operating in a hazardous explosives environment. Such environment requires suitably qualified people to play a major role in enhancing performance, ensuring legislated safety and health standards and minimising risk factors in the manufacture and utilisation of primary and secondary explosive articles, maintaining fine tolerances of quality assurance practice at work through effective applied management practices and technical explosives knowledge and competence in the explosives industry. This qualification provides an initial learning progression path in recognised national and international standards of professional explosives management processes and practices to achieve applied competence at levels defined by relevant legislation governing the explosives industry and certification standards of explosives managers set by the Department of Labour. This qualification will allow a person to advance to learning such as the Advanced Diploma in Explosives Management, NQF 7 or related qualifications.
This qualification will be presented using both online and distance learning modes.

Who can register?

  • Applicants (new applicants & Unisa students who applied for admission to a new qualification) may only register if they have received an offer of placement from Unisa and have accepted the offer online. Unisa reserves the right to not process and / or to cancel your registration if it is found that you were incorrectly admitted to a qualification. 
  • Re-registering students may register for the 2025 academic year once the registration period opens.

Please note: Should you wish to start a new qualification, please apply online for the alternative qualification during the prescribed application period.


How to choose your modules

Each Unisa qualification is structured in such a way that you need to pass a certain number of NQF level credits within a certain amount of time in order to graduate.

  • Co-requisite: Module A is a co-requisite for Module B. You want to register for Module B, but have not yet passed Module A. You must then register for both Modules A and B simultaneously. You may NOT cancel your registration for Module A unless Module B is also cancelled.

  • Pre-requisite: If Module A is a pre-requisite for Module B, you must pass Module A before you may register for Module B.

You may not register for more than the allowed maximum number of credits / modules per academic year and / or semester: 60 credits per semester or 120 credits per academic year.

The maximum number of credits do not include supplementary and / or aegrotat examinations from a previous semester. Modules taken for non-degree / non-diploma purposes also count towards the maximum number of credits allowed.

You must take your available time into consideration when choosing your modules, as this will impact your academic performance. You need approximately

  • 6 to 8 hours per week for semester modules.
  • 4 to 6 hours per week for year modules.

Click here for more information on managing your studies.

Curriculum for this qualification

While you are deciding on the modules for which you will be registering, write down the module names and codes so that you have something to refer to when completing your registration.

Please click on the modules below to see further information (eg semester/year module, NQF level)

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